VITREOUS SILICA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Colorless glass made of almost pure silica

Synonyms:

crystal; lechatelierite; quartz; quartz glass; vitreous silica

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("vitreous silica" is a kind of...):

natural glass (magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly)

Meronyms (substance of "vitreous silica"):

silica; silicon dioxide; silicon oxide (a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite)

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